Bunnell Forensic Weather & Hail Impact Report

Look, I’ve been replacing roofs in Flagler County for over fifteen years, and I can tell you Bunnell gets hit from a perfect storm of bad luck. You’re sitting right in that corridor where the warm, moist air off the Intracoastal and the Atlantic collides with the cooler air pushing down from the St. Johns River basin. That clash doesn’t just brew afternoon thunderstorms—it spins up those tight, nasty supercells that drop hail the size of golf balls, sometimes bigger. And because the ground here is so flat and sandy, there’s nothing to break up the wind. A straight-line gust can come screaming across the palmetto flats and hit your roof at 70, 80 miles an hour with zero warning, lifting shingles like they’re playing cards.

The real kicker is the timing. Our severe season runs from late May through September, but we also get those rogue nor’easters in the winter that bring sideways rain and sustained winds for days. That’s the combo that wrecks roofs—hail dings the shingles, knocking off the protective granules, and then the wind gets under those weakened spots and peels them right back. Plus, with all the oak and pine trees around here, you get flying debris acting like shrapnel. I’ve seen brand-new architectural shingles on a house off Moody Boulevard look like they’d been shot with a shotgun after one July storm. It’s not a matter of *if* your roof will take a beating here, it’s a matter of *when*—and whether you’ve got the right impact-rated material to survive it.